New Layout Build - Expanding the town scenery

[@gbjanuary]

Great houses and town especially like the road looking fab 👍🏻😋

[@leey7h]

youre right , that building in Watford is a monstrosity. walked past it thousands of times, always thought it was never in keeping with other buildings, thanks for posting

[@peterbowden4235]

Thank you, you inspire many to Dream. A thought on car parks is to think of their uses for other then a car eg. Local Flea market, street get together or weekend car sales. In the 80s Tamiya made RC off road cars popular and most kids in small towns didn't have tracks to use, I still remember as a kid chasing after my older brothers going to our local grocery store and using their back car park to race my brothers RC cars around cones and over wood jumps (We started the towns first RC club in that car park until the adults took over) could make an interesting scene. Thank you for letting us join you having fun.

[@JamesPetts]

Only a railway modeller could say with a straight face, "very pleased with the potholes"...

[@userequaltoNull]

Or a Cities: Skylines player! Pretty much the same thing, though.

[@JamesPetts]

@@userequaltoNull I do like Cities: Skylines.

[@siraujus101]

Looking great and for the first scratch build on a office building it looks very good. perfect height to view the trains running behind while on a lunch break.

[@georgethomas7814]

I came back to this because I was missing Everard Junction and wow the banking looks massive in these shots.

[@richardspees841]

I don't believe I have commented before, but have watched a lot of your videos, and your layout is looking grand. Your weathering of rolling stock and the buildings and structures is superb. Thanks a lot for sharing your hobby and journey.

[@locowerke]

Great video! Always enjoy your offerings, much to admire and enthuse over....and yes, inspirational, too!!

[@pim1234]

Even paints the side you don't see ! Bravo !

[@LarryBees]

potholes and volvo !! brilliant scenes coming into shape !!

[@l.rod2827]

Hello James, I've been watching your videos. I'm across the pond in the USA and I'm looking at starting my first build. I really like your approach and construction techniques. Thank you for your attention to detail and explaining your methodology and thought process. This will definitely aid in my approach and has given me so many ideas. I'm certain I will make plenty of mistakes but feel that it will be a good learning experiences. Keep up the great work.

[@davidp3734]

Thank you Richard. These videos are a welcome change..

[@davidcutts2650]

Looking great. The office block is spot on & yes it was inspirational 👍👍.

[@tonylarkin7564]

Well done Richard ,Buffer stop look's Great .Thanks again for the Excellent Video . Great Content .. Regards Tony

[@FarlandHowe]

You could put a drop or two of realistic water or a couple drops of shiny varnish into your potholes for a wet effect. I am a fan. Rob

[@EverardJunction]

I was thinking of doing that in one of the shallow areas where the waste ground is. Would look great in the potholes though, will give it a try. Cheers Rob

[@DudleyCentral]

Love the patchy effects with the grass, looks really effective! That whole area has really came together very nicely.

[@124Outdoor]

Fantastic! Your love for your hobby means I don't have to climb up into the attic every night and do it myself. Cheers man 👍🏻

[@TilefordOO]

Excellence as always. The overgrown siding is crying out for some Buddleia bushes IMHO

[@unclenolly3207]

Your videos are always worth waiting for. 👍

[@olivergosling3668]

I had no idea the office building was based on the wishing well pub building! That's amazing. Richard you are truly very talented, love watching your videos.

[@mrwilliecowie]

As a panel beater in my former life, worked on a couple of Granada Coupe`s the grill is an absolute heavy monster no plastic them days.

[@icmdead1]

486 Pentium processor, crikey that takes me back to when my mates mum updated her PC to one of those, we were able to play the original 'Doom' and 2 player 'Return Fire' sharing the keyboard. Kids don't know how good they have it with their PC's these days. Thanks for the update and it's looking great!

[@TheDaf95xf]

Evening Richard. Well said at the beginning it’s your hobby 😁 It’s always worth waiting for your fantastic Everard junction video 👍🏻 Thanks Stevie 😎 Can’t wait for the Granada video Richard as I owned several of them 🤣

[@unrealrailway1592]

I love how your layout has the right balance of track to scenery, that magnorail is working a treat.

[@toshihitsu1989]

I forgot about this channel until I was looking when I had subscribed to people for you it's been from 2014. Even if it's rare to see videos from you I still enjoy watching them years later

[@gaminggrandpa24]

The building looks great, the layout looks Awsome, love the videos. Make an old man want to take up model trains, never will be as good as you are young man,

[@garylester55]

Thank you Graham for taking the time to put this interesting video together. Take care, regards Gary.

[@silletrebor]

love the compacted grime and oil in the 4ft of the siding that comes up to sleeper height...that's exactly what it gets like over the years...well done!

[@dmegrailways]

The back gardens look so good it is as if they have gone a bit naturally overgrown since the last video. Brilliant.

[@Cortinaman63]

The Ford Granada is looking AMAZING can't wait to see more of that, looks like your doing the same High quality attention to detail work as me on my 1974 Ford Cortina on my channel, a car I have owned 44 years!, the layout is looking lovely, I adore the "detail" work you put in to this, making everything look as real as you can something I genuinely admire, superb job, LOVE the work you put into it.

[@dickygeemusic]

I wish I'd kept one of the few Cortinas that I have owned over the years... 1 Mk3, 2 Mk4s and 2 Mk5s. I had a bit of a Cortina habit lol.

[@Cortinaman63]

@@dickygeemusic I loved your comment, I have 3x Mk3's two of them are on my channel, being restored, like your choices of cars!, good man!!!

[@leilacentral1883]

Love your videos. I grab a coffee and sit in peace. So relaxing but educational on what your doing. Such great progress and inspiration that I use with my layout. Clint at Leila Central

[@lancastrian123]

Fantastic, a new video from Everard Junction. Been waiting for it with great anticipation.

[@TheAudiostud]

Yes! I recognised that building and its location as it was part my old stomping grounds when I worked for BT back in the 80's there used to be a excellent Kebab Shop there too and a chicken shish was always a great way to finish off an evening at Baileys night club and a skin full of beer!

[@EverardJunction]

Kebab shop would look good by the station. Needs to squeeze something like that onto the street somewhere.

[@WarleyModelRailwayClub]

It's nice to see your moving away from rail match enamels, hardly ever use them now I've started using Tamiya and Vallejo the paint quality is so much better and lot better for your health especially when working in a enclosed loft. Getting closer to the Station area, and nice scratch build. Really nice to see cheaper products like sand paper used to give texture rather then embossed plastikard. Andy

[@EverardJunction]

Cheers Andy, amazing what odds & ends can be of use to a model railway.

[@swaool]

Excellent work as always, Richard. The pothole effect in the car park is quite effective. Also love the Volvo 240 estate; mine was an '87 in beige!

[@ThePeejRR]

Wonderful! That office building is quite impressive. Great work all around!! Thanks!

[@Metaphase1980]

It's screaming out for a pub and a beer garden.

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

Layout is looking great, really starting to come alive.

[@ade9685]

Brilliant that Richard you make it look so easy! The office building looks pretty darn fine too. Cheers

[@Wilayaat]

Ha, I used to live near that ugly building so recognise it well! Another fantastic video, absolute inspiration.

[@Gus-jb8cm]

It's good to watch you at work, even when you make mistakes you explain those and how to save and improve as you go along. Great video again. 👍👍 😊

[@GalgormHall]

Cracking update there Richard, plenty of nicely added detail and of course more to come. The highlight has to be that scratch built office block, you’ve captured the prototype perfectly. I’ll look forward to seeing that in it’s finished state. Paul

[@anthony566]

Another fantastic update. ... the retaining wall looks really as does everything else really. Thanks for the spray paint details it's nice to see other makes of paints used with good effect.

[@DeanPark]

What a dramatic intro, I wasnt sure if a loco was coming or a cross between a Lancaster and a Vulcan bomber! lol. Good to communicate your stance as well. People forget its a hobby for us. Great stuff as always. There is no point uploading unless there is something to show! Building based on this 'monstrosity' lol. Cheers. The roof Vents do look good on it. Dave

[@EverardJunction]

Thanks Dave, looking forward to having a go at the interior!

[@martinbateman2467]

But people are anxious to see your progress 😉. It’s my hobby as well, but give it has taken me 2 years to do baseboards and finish a fiddle yard, I know exactly what you mean......work, family and then hobby time

[@BladeRunner21577]

I love the videos but I would rather wait for a good one that loads of rubbish ones. Thats not his style.

[@tabs41]

Another enjoyable half-hour watching the master at work, thanks Richard

[@DungeWoodRailway]

Hi Richard Enjoyed the video, some nice scenes starting to appear, particarly like the siding and car park. Regards Paul

[@richiesquest3283]

You will probably never know how many people you have inspired including myself with your excellent videos.

[@cedarcam]

Comparing your model to the real building you have done a great job. When you get to the weathering the roof would look good with patches where leaks have been repaired and moss growing as seen on many flat roof buildings. I like the detail on the cable route with the displaced lids. A common sight on the real thing

[@simod]

Just thinking when I was a kid any bit of waste ground would have a large burnt patch from a bonfire. Brilliant scenery. 👍🏻

[@tbphotoshoptutorials3836]

The different tones of ballast looks fantastic, as does the pot holes. I love the office building too!

[@JPoulAndersson]

Super work Richard! I think your scratchbuild looks amazing. I'm an architectural historian by education and although it's based on a 1960's prototype it does have elements of a 1920/30's Bauhaus sort of structure with what appear to be steel window frames sitting in quite deep sills. It's actually a proper modernist building in some ways. Cheers, Joachim

[@CM-ARM]

As usual, great work. Your scratch built office building is looking perfect.

[@R1door]

KZbin recommendations doing its job again! Great project mate and love the realism going on here 👍👍👍

[@doogs126]

Both the car park and the shop/office block are excellent, Richard.

[@joshuahalla.k.a.controlla6333]

Great video. ☺️

[@Electra_1203]

Another Everard Jn Video! Looking forward to watching!

[@dickygeemusic]

Incidentally, I worked for NSE back in 1989, so your layout brings back memories.

[@nickbishop6784]

Fantastic work Richard. It is rally inspiring to see how you bring together so many different elements to enhance the realism of the layout. looking forward to your next update.

[@ModelTrainOutsider]

Keeping it short and sweet: the town area ("counsel houses?") really looks great. Brilliant work.

[@TheCreativeModellerHO]

Great video 👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼👍👍

[@andrewellaway9086]

Looks great, you take your time it’s all yours and up to you when and how you get there. I’ll keep watching for the inspiration to try and maybe achieve something half as good as yours. 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@nigelweir3852]

These houses and scenery is fantastic

[@georgewyatt6712]

Hi Richard. Great up date as always everything is looking amazing love the office block just how I remember them. Regards George....

[@jFrosty2842]

Richard: Thank you for sharing your videos! I do enjoy them so much...and how well your layout is turning out.

[@Mrkewell7]

That's cheered me up on a rainy monday night! Keep up the good work mate.

[@striderpaul]

Another great video, thank you. Love the attention to detail it brings the whole model to life.

[@thescrapline4905]

Cracking video and another step closer to finishing the layout, another couple of videos you'll be done lol.. joking aside, it's certainly taking shape and great to see those little touches bringing it all to life. Love the derelict bits of land, definitely something you see as you head out of big towns or city's. Building that cable trunking must be diving you nuts by now! I got the hump after 1 piece. Lol.

[@EverardJunction]

Thanks Tim. I've got quite good at the trunking! Its not easy though, very fiddly for the first few bits. Plenty of details left to do for this area, its far too clean. Needs a dumped car and some rubbish for that authentic 80s atmosphere! Cheers

[@mandbhomestead]

Great video, the scratch build building looks awesome. The Ford Granada looks amazing, cannot wait to see the update on that.

[@craigymac5386]

Excellent work Richard, always a pleasure to watch your videos. Well done on the Granada to.

[@clivecobbold6815]

Hi Richard another great video mate I model the wcml in 1980s in and aground lancaster and heysham harbour and stranraer harhour in south west Scotland with intercity boat trains and intercity sleeper trains to and from london euston i have been watching you for a couple of years now your layout is great keep the video coming mate clive

[@davetevens5080]

Excellent vid Richard. Can’t wait for the Granada update. 😊

[@kingswoodjunction897]

Loving the nods to Watford on your new layout. I live there now and grew up in Radlett :)

[@gardenman3]

Office building is looking great.

[@EthanBB]

I must say, that office building is looking impressive. Cant wait for next part!

[@sub39h]

Great video - love the office building. I’d leave the red unit empty with a To Let sign and fly posters. You don’t see something like that modelled very often.

[@slick0074]

Fantastic! Thanks for sharing your awesome talents. I really look forward to your videos. 🔔

[@chuffatrainman]

Great progress , the cars are great and it's all come on so well. Love the gardens.

[@AntoekneeDE]

Excellent, thanks for putting the time and effort into sharing this, looks incredible

[@garyscott5746]

Great video. The building is looking the part. I think you missed an opportunity on the clear area. It would have made a great abandoned building site with wooden ply fencing a few piles of sand gravel and a few breeze blocks etc

[@benk3999]

Awesome work. Love the details and care you take. Truly inspiring.

[@chazzyb8660]

That red makes me think OddBins wine merchants - typical of your time era and great potential for interiors with posters on the windows by Gerald Scarfe, at that period, and piles of wine boxes inside. The car park would be very useful for customers, I think then you had to buy at minimum, a full crate or more. Lovely update altogether.

[@kl743]

Have been checking this space every day. Total joy to see a video here today. :D

[@oxolotleman7226]

Can't wait to watch the next video, all this new scenery is exciting.

[@mick9885]

Nice work Richard, looks great 👍

[@glenshielrailway5696]

Another cracking update, Richard. Well worth the wait and I wouldn't have it any other way. Never let yourself get bogged down with deadlines or upload schedules! The red 'office' is screaming shady tyre center to me, mate. The Kwik Fit down the road from me looks identical (a bit more blue) to the lower half of that building, windows and all. It'd look great with a vehicle lift lined up with the opening (garage door) on the side. Brownie points if you can find a Granada to put on it! Maybe throw some "For Sale" sales on the cars in the car park to match? Dave's got some competition in the scratch build department now then, eh?! All the best. Mike.

[@EverardJunction]

It's a bit small for a garage. If you put a car on the lift it would end up under a desk on the first floor! I'd like to add a decent sized garage elsewhere on the layout. You can buy an HO scale lift and I've already got some Granadas!

[@octopiegamer2669]

The Man, The Myth ,The Legend Himself, Has Brought us More content!!!!!

[@patricecote5234]

Simply amazing, very interesting. Thank You for all those tips & inspiration. Tanks again. Pat from Canada👍

[@SomeWelshBloke]

Really enjoying watching this series and the detail you put in. I'm tempted to start railway modelling but like you have a load of other hobbies and this might be on too many for now. The cable troughing looks brilliant. With those old style equipment cabinets/relay boxes often there would be one in a group, especially near a junction, that was owned by the Signalling department rather than the Signal and Telegraph (S&T) department (on the Western Region at least). It would house equipment for emergencies and to set up occupations like banner flags, oil lamps and point clips. They would be identified by a yellow stripe painted on them about 3/4 of the way up from the floor. A bit of the tape you use for road lines would work I guess. Also in group one box may have a bell on it to alert the S&T staff that the signaller wanted to speak to them in the pre-mobile phone days. Maybe a bit small too model though. I've got a photo of one if you'd like to see it. Those orange pipes to protect cables I think came in a bit later than the early 1990's but can't be sure.

[@silletrebor]

another great video Richard...as a suggestion...I can see purple buddleia springing up around that stop block between the main lines....its everywhere on the network!

[@derekprice9998]

Best thing about this layout is that Commodore Logo, the geek in me is happy :P

[@onnomulder9775]

Awesome job Richard!!! Well done! Cheers Onno.

[@sachdevalamin3174]

With respect to the building. You could add sewer vents, may be some repair patches, debris in the corners, and maybe some mold where the south side of the wall skirt is shading the roof.

[@andrewb2475]

Phenomenal layout, I've always had dreams of building a model railway but I fear I have neither the skills or patience...…….. nice to watch other modellors on KZbin though!

Great video, fantastic !

[@adlam97531]

The office block looks great, even in its unfinished state. I think that bit of waste ground would have not gone totally to spare and had some roadside advert boards put up. Always worth waiting for, look forwards to your next one.

[@EverardJunction]

Lots of detail to add to the waste ground in the next part. It is very neat and uncluttered at present.

[@graememorrison5456]

Haven’t hit a video so fast 🙏

[@johntaylor-tz6td]

Thanks for that

[@graememorrison5456]

john taylor your welcome John anytime lol

[@bhuddaloyd]

love the office building. Looks great.

[@prezzeruk4054]

Hello there!! Just found ur channel today! Love ur layout and ur models! I used to have a basic layout as child with my dad, and it was very basic. But i loved it. I dont have a layout at all now at 49 years old, but i am startinh to do model making again, so iam always eager to pick up new tips n tricks!

[@tomstickland]

I really enjoy watching these. You sound a bit like John Peel.

[@contemporaryrailwayscenes8125]

Another great video! Nice job on the 31 in the last one, I've finally finished my 26 and 37 in the same livery thanks to that one. I think the other shop should be a Gregg's. There always seemed to be one near a busy station for all the spotters to go and stock up on pasties!